A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .

A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .

Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .

FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .

WEARING tiny Christmas accessories, these adorable babies get into the spirit of the season .

WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .

THIS UNUSUAL collaboration between a mother and her two-year-old daughter makes for some stunning works of art .

A loving daughter has set up a Facebook page in a desperate plea to strangers, to donate a kidney to her dying mum .

FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .

Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .

A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .

THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .